Rare Ferraris top £12.6m car auction
15 March 2010
The vintage beauty headlined a massive £12.6 million haul as part of RM Auctions’ 12th annual ‘Automobiles of Amelia Island’ sale, which was held in Florida over the weekend.
Full gallery: every car pictured
Returning to the prestigious Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the single-day sale saw 112 cars cross the block before a packed house – with four cars breaking the magic million dollar mark and 15 lots exceeding their pre-sale estimates.
The top-seller was a supreme 1930 Duesenberg Model J Sport Berline from the estate of noted American collector, the late Mr John O’Quinn.
A second Model J Duesenberg from Mr O’Quinn’s collection – a beautifully restored 1932 Convertible Coupe – also realised a final sale price of just under £550,000.
Other highlights from the O’Quinn collection included a stunning 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL “Gullwing” Coupe, finished in graphite grey with red leather interior for £457,000.
But just as the prancing horses stormed ahead at the first Formula One race of the season in Bahrain, Amelia Island’s top-seller list was dominated by a selection of historic Ferraris.
A striking and multi-award winning ‘Fly Yellow’ 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Berlinetta was another example to well-exceed its pre-sale estimate, selling for just under £1.1 million. A superb, alloy-bodied ‘Four-Cam’ from the same year, finished in Nocciola and on the market for the first time in 30 years, brought £840,000.
Rounding off the million-dollar-plus sales, a 1971 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Spyder, formerly owned by Edsel B Ford II, achieved £676,000.
This was RM Auctions’ second major classic car auction of the year, following a £12.1 million sale in January at which a classic 1963 Aston Martin DB4 GT model sold for £620,000.
Full gallery: check out some of the star cars from January's £12.1 million car auction
By Rhian Angharad Jones
Gallery: we were at the 2009 RM Auctions event in Battersea - check out the cars which sold for a whopping £10.9 million in total.
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